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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 07:41:17 +0000
Subject: Re: remove the ->mapping_error method from dma_map_ops V2
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>, linux@armlinux.org.uk, Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, robin.murphy@arm.com, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 07:55:11AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 09:55:25AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > No, the big immediate benefit of allowing "return -EINVAL" etc is
> > simply legibility and error avoidance.
> 
> Well, I can tweak the last patch to return -EINVAL from dma_mapping_error
> instead of the old 1 is as bool true.  The callers should all be fine,
> although I'd have to audit them.  Still wouldn't help with being able to
> return different errors.

Any opinions?  I'd really like to make some forward progress on this
series.